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Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the beginning-of-an-era dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You can now get GPLed JVM sources from Sun. Everyone seemed to be expecting the desktop version (J2SE) but J2ME has been released first. It looks to be buildable for Linux x86, MIPS, and ARM platforms. Sun now calls it 'phoneME.' Enjoy."

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  1. Re:phoneME? Not Java? by jrumney · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The name is a trademark, and I suppose Sun want to keep it for compliant implementations, as has been the case since they started licensing Java to other companies for implementation. The problem is that a restriction that you cannot change the APIs to make them incompatible with other Java implementations would not be compatible with the GPL, so the only way around this for them is to change the name for what is released under the GPL.